Re: [PATCH -v7][RFC]: mutex: implement adaptive spinning

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> And quite often, some of them go away - or at least shrink a lot - when 
> some config option or other isn't set. So sometimes it's an inline because 
> a certain class of people really want it inlined, simply because for 
> _them_ it makes sense, but when you enable debugging or something, it 
> absolutely explodes.
> 

And this is really why getting static inline annotations right is really
hard if not impossible in the general case (especially when considering
the sheer number of architectures we compile on.)  So making it possible
for the compiler to do the right thing for at least this class of
functions really does seem like a good idea.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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